The Press., 1887-09-15
CHartford Courant.l THE GAME LAWS TO BE ENFORCED.

THE GAME LAWS ID BE ENFOkCEDs
 There has always been q tolerably thor ough disregard of the game laws, particu larly as relates to shooting woodcock, quai and cartridges out of season, taking par tridges in snares and displaying of then iR plain violation of law. Now there i. likely to be change in this region. The selectmen, complying with one law whict is said to be generally disregarded through the state, have appointed two game war dens, and these have announced an inten ton to execute the law. What the law ii will be explained directly. First, as tc the game wardenR. The legislature of 188G passed an act which still stands, the first clause of which reads :-
 The selectmen of every town shall appoint two or more persons to be game wardens, who shoH assist in detecting and prosecuting of fences against the laws, and shall be paid the same fees allowed to grand jurors in crimina cases.
 1 So much for the authority under which the wardens act. Now as to the law. This falls under three heads, that which de termines the close tune, that which regu lates the manner of taking the game and that which regulates it's sale, including an absolute prohibition of export from the state.
 Take first the matter of export. Here are the important parts of the act passed by the legislature of 1882 :-
 SECTION 2.-No person, corporation or company shall transport or convey beyond the limits of this state any woodcock, ruffed grouse or quail killed within this state, or sell, or have in his or their possession any of such birds with the intention to procure the same to be conveyed or transported beyond the limits of this state.
 Section 3. The reception by any person, company or corporation within the limits of this state of any quail, woodcock or ruffed grouse for shipment to point without the state shall be prinaG fdcie evidence that the said bird or birds were killed within the state for the purpose of carrying the same beyond the limits of the state.
 1 The last clause of Section 8 refers to 8 previous prohibition of killing the birds to send them out of the state. The penalty \ provided is fine of not less than $7 nor more than $50. Now as to taking the birds. The act oi 1884 provides that no person shall "hunt or pursue, kill, destroy, or attempt to kill anywoodcock, quail, grey squirrel or ruffed grouse Commonly called partridge) be- tween the first day of January and the first day of October>in each year, and provides for each offense Gncluding having the game in possession) fine of not more than $25. The statute of 1877 forbids taking the birds by nets, traps or snares except on ones own land.
 In 1886 a law was passed, and in 1887 amended, which in the amended form reads thus:-
 Section 1. No person not the owner or oc cupant under lease of the lands upon which said birds shall have been taken, nor mem Der of the family of such owner or occupant shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, any partridges, quail ol woodcock which have been taken or killed by traps, snares, nets, or similar devices.
 The second section provides penalty oi $10 for violation of the act.
 From all this it appears that quail, par fridge and woodcock may only be killed in l October, November and December, that unless killed by the owner or occupant oi the land they may not be snared, netted or trapped, and that no one but the owner or occupant of the land may sell or ex. change snared birds. That is, outside oi the three months of October, November and December, no one may kill these birds in any way or have them in his possession. In these months any one may buy or sell birds that have been shot but not birds that have been snared. Traffic in these is always illegal. It is also illegal at any time to send quail, woodcock or partridges out of the state, or to be the means of talk ing them out
 The newly appointed wardens are Mir. A. 0. Collins and Dr. David Crary. They propose to enforce the law, and, as it has been SO generally ignored, have begun by notifying dealers and transportation agents, l 1O that nuoru ono oOnonrnnd may hoUa fair warming. At the office of the Transports tion company, by which game has been largely shipped, they were given the as surance of full cooperation. The manage ment will forbid the shipment of game out of season, or to go out of the state, will require everything to be way billed, and will notify its employees that disregard oi the order will be followed by discharge. It is expected that Adams Express Compa ny will do the same. The market dealers have been specially cautioned against sell. ing snared birds, and restaurants and oth CT places liable to disregard the law will be notified, and then, in case of neglect, pros ecuted.
 During the disregard of the law game has been thinned of by too early shooting and by illegal capture and sale, and those who have themselves regarded the law have been put at serious disadvantage at against those who paid no attention to it.
 Any persons who desire to communicate with the game wardens as to violation O the law, are asked to address Dr. David Crary, 490 Main-st., or MT. A. O. Collins Drawer D., post office, Hartford.
 
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